Oh, how I am proud of the item in the photo. What we ended up calling a veggie burger. Or cheese. It is a very dry puck of apple pomace. The reason it’s an accomplishment is that it took a bloody long time to figure out that a) my press design had a major flaw and b) how to fix it. Once we had it sorted out, it took us 2 hrs to pick, crush, and press 100lbs of apples from my tree.
More on the major flaw to come. I TOLD folks to wait until we tried the gear out. :) The good news is that it’s a logical oops that is readily solvable. We also learned a lot of tricks along the way by doing that I will share shortly.
My brother-in-law-chemist just left – we completed the pH, sg, and TA testing. Tomorrow some tweaking occurs, and the yeast gets to come out of the fridge and charge to a blissful death for our benefit.
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